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It’s also decidedly easy with the AEH to make missiles/drones that totally out perform the canon versions

I like the momentum free aspect of jump space but you could easily sat that for a perfectly plotted jump to known clear space the exit point opens with a vector equal to the direction and velocity of a circular orbit of the star at that point. However, given that there is never completely clear...

I think he meant two Americans

If you decide that High Energy batteries power jump drives in your game that’s completely cool. Existing designs don’t use it because page 17 of High Guard specifically says that only Fusion and antimatter power plants can be used for Jumps or, at TL14, Collectors on page 83. I like the idea...

Bullet impact momentum really isn’t that much; a 7.62x51 has about a third more than a baseball and a 5.56x45 about a third less. To be fair they do have around 30 and 15 times the energy of a baseball respectively but it’s momentum that knocks you over. Not trivial but not a great deal if...

I got what tytalan was trying to get across which if I’m not mistaken essentially boils down to if you’re not having to worry about all that gravity nonsense then you can use the power that was needed to counteract it for something else - like more acceleration. A good, but not perfect, example...

This. And keep the Gearheads happy(ish) of course. It will always be possible to nerf any set of rules beyond credibility and it’s down to the referee to step in, apologise - I think Traveller GMs only come with the sarcastic version though - and point out that it does not fit the...

A lot of confusion in Traveller though is definitely the crossed wires of dTons vs Metric tonnes - it fairly obvious that some past writers didn’t quite grasp the concept that volume is not mass. Ship missiles are the classic example of this. From Striker onwards standard assumption seems to be...

Absolutely. Thinking howitzers, mortars, rockets and of course the targeting solution for a Meson gun. But… While a projectile weapon obviously needs an elevation system to fire over stuff does a Meson gun need to point directly at its target? If so it makes for an interesting mounting system...

The Grav APC in the original Kinunir adventure book sported a remote turret with a Rapid-Pulse Y-gun - introduced at TL13 and given the RP bonus at TL+2. In LBB Mercenary this would be down to 0.5 tons with Auto-5. In my eyes that APC was the most impressive thing on the ship! My original...

The A, B, C plasma and X, Y, Z fusion guns are a bit disappointing. They’re all 4 tons in the CSC Update 2023. Other than range and no ammo requirements they are very pale comparisons to the originals in Mercenary. Mercenary LBB started them off at 4 tons (kg not dTons!) but at TL+1 down to 2...

Exactly, but simplify is pretty much a game requirement. Traveller already uses one of the simplest armour versus damage models and that is absolutely fine. You can go crazy modelling reality in a game but it is possible to introduce nuances that attempt to do that without breaking everybody’s...

Been giving some thought to the all or nothing option with armour. MY THOUGHTS I don’t fundamentally disagree with the idea that, “if a bullet comes through armour it might as well not have been there” premise. I’m not saying it’s not right but it doesn’t feel right. If the weapons seriously...

I tend to consider things like terms ‘Computer’ and ‘Turret’ to be hold overs from ye olde days and tend to consider they are implying function over actual form. For example, in the context of a starship “Computer/20” is functionally “Control Systems /20”. Similarly, I think of a hard point as...

Talking of which… The TL15 Starleaper yacht on page 51 appears to have a TL17 Power Plant. Power Plant Fusion (TL15, increased power), Power 220 According to the High Guard Update 2022 Adding Increased Power requires two Advantages which affectively adds +2 to the TL of the drive. To be...